Cordial saludo,

El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título:  “Below replacement: recent trends in Chilean fertility and parental leave reform”

Presenta:  Serafima Chirkova (University of Santiago)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the effects of paid, job-protected parental leave on the Chilean birth rates. The analysis is based on a Chilean reform introduced the parental leave system in 2011. The reform established 18 weeks of paid, job-protected leave for working parents. Using data from Vital Statistics on the population of birth between 2010-2013 I analyze the impact of the introduced incentives on the conception rates. I find that the reform has a positive impact on the fertility decision in the short-run, the conception rates increases around 0.45 child per thousand working women. The effect is pronounced both for a first and second children. In addition, fertility responses vary across the Chilean regions. The effect duplicates in the regions in comparison with Santiago, the capital and largest city of Chile.

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 28 de septiembre de 13:00 a 14:00 hrs, en  la Sala P-307 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.

Esperando contar con su asistencia.

Departamento Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios.